Critical Infrastructure Disconnects in Transportation and LogisticsModeling the Economic, Sociological, and Human Impacts

OutlineObjectiveOverview

Systems Engineering (SE) Critical Infrastructure (CI)Transportation & Logistics (Trans/Log)

ProcessFormulating the ModelBenefits

OutlineFusing Trans/Log Highways and

Vehicles (TLHV) with the CIIdentifying the StakeholdersCapturing the RequirementsPerforming Functional AnalysisAssessing the TLHV’s Risk

What are the Critical AssetsWhat are the VulnerabilitiesWhat are the Threats

OutlineVerifying and Validating the ModelDemonstrating “What if Scenarios”BenefitsConclusion

ObjectiveTo develop a model based on SE

methodologies and practices to asses thesystem impact of a TLVH disconnect

Objective

Objective

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Objective

SE Overview Various Definitions Exists

State the problem; Investigate alternatives; Model the system; Integrate; Launch the system; Assesses performance; and Re-evaluate (SIMILAR). The systems engineering process is not sequential. The functions are performed in a parallel and iterative manner.1

SE Overview System-of-Systems InterdependenciesElements of a System2

ComponentsAttributesRelationships

SE Overview Top-down/Bottom-up

Life-cycle

Identification of System Requirements

TeamApproach

CI Overview President's Commission on Critical

Infrastructure Protection report called for a national effort to assure the security of the United States' increasingly vulnerable and interconnected infrastructures3

Lead to the Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PDD63)

CI Overview There are 13 general CI defined by

the Department of Homeland Security 1. Agriculture

2. Banking and Finance3. Chem. Ind. & Haz Mat4. Defense Industrial Base5. Emergency Services6. Energy

7. Food8. Government9. Info. and Telecom.10.Postal and Shipping11.Public Health12.Transportation13.Water

CI Overview Others include:

SPAWAR – 10 with subsetsInfraGard of North Texas – 9

CI could also be specific to areaPort of Houston

CI Overview Common property of CI

All are complex collections of interacting components in which change often occurs as a result of learning process; that is, they are complex adaptive systems (CAS)4

Trans/Log Overview

Transportation is one of the most important and increasingly complex infrastructure networks

of our modern society5

Trans/Log Overview Transportation

A facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods5

Trans/Log Overview Logistics

That part of the supply chain process that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective forward and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customers' requirements6

Trans/Log Overview Customer

FinancialCustoms

Air

Freight FwdMotorRail

Ocean

Mfg

Information

Product/Material

Single SourceInformation

ConsolidatorDe-consolidator

Trans/Log Overview Gross Domestic Product: 20037

8.5%

91.5%

Trans/Log All Other

Trans/Log Overview Airports/AircraftHighways/VehiclesRailroads/TrainsWaterways/Vessels

Trans/Log Overview Airports/AircraftHighways/VehiclesRailroads/TrainsWaterways/Vessels

ProcessFuse Trans/Log Highways and

Vehicles (TLHV) with the CIIdentify Stakeholders

Commuters

Distribution Centers

Utilities / P

ower CrewsEmergency Responders Airports

Water PortsBus and Rail S

tations

ProcessCapture the Requirements

Perform Functional Analysis

Functional Performance

ProcessAssess TLHV’s Risk8

ProcessFormulating the Model

Economic Impact

ProcessSociological Impact

ProcessRs(t) Analysis FMECAMonte Carlo SimulationRisk AnalysisPaper

Six DimensionsTemporalGeographical Interdependencies

Footnotes1. Inaugural issue, Systems Engineering, Journal of the International

Council of Systems Engineering INCOSE, Seattle, WA (vol. 1, no. 1, July/September 1994).

2. Benjamin S. Blanchard, Logistics Engineering and Management, (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004), p. 28.

3. The Whit House: Office of the Press Secretary, Fact Sheet, May 22, 1998. [Online]. Available at http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd-63.htm.

4. Steven M. Rinaldi, James P. Peerenboom, and Terrence K. Kelly, Identifying, Understanding, and Analyzing Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies, (IEEE Control System Magazine, December 2001), p.13.

5. George Mason University, Systems Engineering Research and Operations.

6. Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University.7. The Michigan Roundtables (Council of Logistics Management)8. Perry A. Trunick, How to Beat the High Cost of Shipping, Logistics

Today, July, 2004.9. NDIA Information Briefing. DoD Critical Infrastructure Protection, July

3, 2002. 10. Douglas M. Lambert and James R. Stock, Strategic Logistics

Management, (Homewood, IL: Irwin, Third Edition, 1993), pp. 281-294.

ProcessFuse Trans/Log Highways and

Vehicles (TLHV) with the CIIdentify Stakeholders

CommutersDistribution CentersEmergency RespondersUtilities / Power CrewsAirportsBus and Rail StationsWater Ports A. Axelrod and MD. Cohen, Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a

Scientific Frontier (NY: Free Press, 1999), pp.32-61

Commuters

Distribution Centers

Utilities / P

ower Crews

Emergency Responders Airports

Water PortsBus and Rail S

tationsFunctional Performance